Kara Visits Google's I/O: The Attack of the Android Phones and Geek Social Dudes Too!

Here’s a video I did yesterday at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco.

I was there on the second day of the annual event to moderate a panel titled, “Where Is the Social Web Going Next,” with panelists from MySpace, LinkedIn, Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo (YHOO), Twitter and, natch, Google (GOOG).

Essentially and as usual, as was the case at Twitter’s Chirp conference recently, it was me smacking around a bunch of geek dudes at a festival of geek dudes for the enjoyment of geek dudes.

This is BoomTown’s chosen snarky path!

We talked a lot about privacy–the big hot-button issue, of course, which is why we really should have had a Facebook geek dude on the panel too–in social networking, mobile and devices.

And here’s my video from I/O, including interviews with some of those geek dudes:

Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work

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